Dogs On Duty: Soldiers’ Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent (Walker & Co., 2012) The photographs of these heroic dogs working side by side with soldiers are inspirational. Cairo, a Belgian Malinois, jumps from an airplane along side his Navy SEAL team member. Other dogs help find missing soldiers, act as messengers, or protect troops as sentries. This book is full of fantastic information about soldiers’ best friends, from training as puppies to serving our country as MWDs (Military Working Dogs).

Kristen Remenar is an author, children’s librarian, chocolate enthusiast, and national speaker on early literacy. When she’s not presenting her seminar on the best books to promote early literacy skills, she’s at her library recommending great books, especially those written and illustrated by her husband, Matt Faulkner.